Faculty of Science

Scott McDougall

Assistant Professor

Geological engineering, geotechnical engineering and engineering geology, landslides, landslide-generated waves/tsunamis, shoreline erosion and dam breaches

Dr. Juan José Alava, PhD

Dr. Juan José Alava, PhD

Research Associate & Principal Investigator

marine eco-toxicology, ocean conservation and pollution, environmental toxicology and chemistry, food web bioaccumulation modeling of pollutants (Bioaccumulation Science), ocean pollution by plastics/microplastics, sea turtles and marine mammals’ eco-toxicology, marine ecology, conservation biology, tropical biodiversity, and ecology, fishery science and management, climate change science, the impact of climate change and acidification in marine organisms and fisheries, climate change adaptation strategies in fisheries, population dynamics and conservation of marine mammals, biology and conservation of marine mammals, seabirds and sea turtles, field ornithology, aquatic microbiology, eco-toxicological risk assessment, environmental impact assessments and environmental policy, public health, tropical parasitology, and environmental/conservation medicine,

Alla Sheffer, CS, PhD

Professor

Computer graphics, computer aided design, digital media

Ivan Beschastnikh

Ivan Beschastnikh

Professor

Software engineering, software systems, distributed systems, distributed computing, systems security and privacy, internet, web, cloud computing, information technology

Dr. Sean Fleming

Dr. Sean Fleming

Adjunct Professor, Dept. of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences

Applied R&D Technical Lead, National Water and Climate Center, US Department of Agriculture

Water resources, hydrology, flooding, water supply, water quality, rivers, groundwater, forecasting, prediction, computational modeling, artificial intelligence, machine learning, statistics, climate variability, climate change, contaminated sites, environmental remediation, mountain glaciers, geophysics, practical applications, environmental monitoring, environmental management, water resource management, environmental policy, public engagement, science and society,

Mark Schmidt

Mark Schmidt

Associate Professor

Dept. of Computer Science

Canada Research Chair in Large-Scale Machine Learning

Canada CIFAR AI Chair (Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute)

Machine learning, artificial intelligence, deep learning, numerical optimization, data science, Medical AI,

Lorne Whitehead, PhD

Lorne Whitehead, PhD

Professor

Illuminating engineering, electronic displays, light sources, colour vision, associated technical standards, associated research techniques

Reid Holmes

Reid Holmes

Associate Professor

Software engineering, human aspects of software, mining software repositories, understanding software systems, software reuse, software tools, software testing, software quality

Robert Raussendorf, PhD

Associate Professor

Quantum computation, quantum information, quantum fault-tolerance

David Boyd, JD, PhD

David Boyd, JD, PhD

Associate Professor of Law, Policy, and Sustainability

Environmental law, environmental policy, rights of nature, right to a healthy environment, human rights and environment, urban sustainability, sustainable development

Michelle Tseng, PhD

Assistant Professor

Insects, freshwater ecology, plant-animal interactions, biological diversity

 

U. Rashid Sumaila, FRSC

U. Rashid Sumaila, FRSC

Professor

Canada Research Chair (Tier I, Interdisciplinary Ocean and Fisheries Economics)

Fisheries economics, marine biodiversity, ocean conservation, biological diversity

Leonid  Sigal

Leonid Sigal

Associate Professor

Computer vision, machine learning, deep learning

Marie Auger-Methe

Marie Auger-Methe

Assistant Professor

Canada Research Chair (Tier II, Statistical Ecology)

Statistical methods to study marine and polar animals, behaviour, population, polar bears, narwhals, penguins, fish, animal movement

Dr. David Rosen, PhD

Dr. David Rosen, PhD

Assistant Professor

marine mammals, animal physiology, marine conservation, animal welfare, seals, sea lions, walrus, behaviour, ecology of marine mammals, bioenergetics, nutrition, conservation physiology, navigation,

Aaron Boley, PhD

Associate Professor

Astronomy, planetary science, solar system, space science

Brian Hunt, PhD

Brian Hunt, PhD

Assistant Professor

UBC Hakai Professor in Oceanography

Plankton, oceanography, ecosystems, salmon, ocean ecology of salmon, food webs, British Columbia, forage fish, ocean observing, changing oceans, ocean science

Katie Marshall, PhD

Katie Marshall, PhD

Assistant Professor

Freeze tolerance, entomology, overwintering biology, spruce budworm, intertidal animals

Amanda Giang

Assistant Professor

Mercury pollution, toxic chemicals, air pollution, global environmental governance, air quality modelling, environmental justice, science policy, environmental policy analysis, global warming, greenhouse effect, greenhouse gases

Ali Ameli

Ali Ameli

Assistant Professor

Groundwater, ecohydrology, hydrology, hydrogeological engineering, watershed management, land-use change, wetland, forest management